Doctor Who has been nominated for the prestigious South Bank Show Awards. The South Bank Show, broadcast on ITV, is a magazine programme covering both popular and "high" art, and it gives awards for different areas of British arts. Doctor Who was previously nominated for the award in 2005 (given in January 2006), but lost to a Channel 4 drama about Elizabeth I. This year, Doctor Who is up against two Channel 4 dramas, Iraq War drama The Mark of Cainand the adaptation of the novel Boy A. The awards will be presented on January 29, 2008, and the ceremony will be broadcast on ITV on February 3, 2008.

David Tennant has been awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland award in the "Screen" category. He beat film actors James McAvoy andTilda Swinton, who were also nominated in the category. The Scotsman has further details of the awards.

Thanks to PolyG of the Doctor Who Forum.

The BBC's Doctor Who website has announced that the writers of Doctor Who Series 3have won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Soap or Series (TV). (The other nominated series were New Tricks Series 4 and Life on Mars Series 2.)

All the writers of Series 3 (Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Russell T. Davies, Stephen Greenhorn, Steven Moffat, Helen Raynor and Gareth Roberts) were honored. Cornell, Greenhorn, Moffat and Roberts were in attendance at the ceremony, which was held at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Further details of the award ceremony are available at the Writers' Guild blog.

Doctor Who has won two of the categories in which it was nominated at the 2007 National Television Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening.

The awards, screened live on ITV1, are voted on by the public. The series took the Most Popular Drama category, while David Tennant won the Most Popular Actor accolade. Freema Agyeman, nominated as Most Popular Actress, did not win her category, which went to EastEnders star Lacey Turner.

In addition, new companion Catherine Tate's sketch show won the Most Popular Comedy category.

BBC News Online has a report.

Sound editor Kelly-Marie Angell has won an award for her work onDoctor Who.

The 22-year-old was named Most Promising Newcomer at The Conch 2007- the UK Screen Association's film, commercial and TV sound awards ceremony.

Angell, who works for Bang Post Production, joined the series while on a gap year from a music and sound technology course at the University of Portsmouth.

She said in a report on BBC News: "We use all sorts of things. Celery is used for broken bones, melons for blood and guts, and hair gel for slime.

"My favourite scene was episode six of the last Doctor Who series where we had the Lazarus monster - it was a huge challenge.

"For that one, we used hair gel and lots of broken glass."

Angell also works on spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Doctor Who has once again been shortlisted for the three main awards in the UK's National Television Awards, those being Most Popular Actor (David Tennant), Most Popular Actress (Freema Agyeman) and Most Popular Drama (Doctor Who).

In the past two years, Doctor Who has gone on to win those three awards, recipients including Christopher Eccleston, Tennant and Billie Piper. Voting is now open online at itv.com/nta.

The Weeping Angels from Series Three episode Blink have topped the Doctor Who Adventures scariest monster poll by receiving 55 percent of the Vote. The Master came in second with 15 percent, while The Daleks came in third with 4 percent.

Moray Laing, editor of Doctor Who Adventures says, "The Weeping Angels are a fantastic addition to the long list of scary monsters in Doctor Who. Children will definitely remember being scared by them for years to come. Also, the idea that you could possibly escape a creature by not blinking is inspired... but it's not as easy as it sounds! The Daleks usually come top of every monster poll - so the Weeping Angels should be proud of their achievement! I wonder what the Daleks would say to the news?"

The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures will be out on September 13th and will feature a full spread on the Weeping Angels.

For the second year running, Doctor Who and its star David Tennant have won prizes at the annual television awards ceremony run jointly by British TV Quick and TV Choice magazines, the results of which are voted on by readers of those publications.

ITN reports that the series won Best-Loved Drama at last night's ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London, with Tennant taking home the prize for Best Actor. Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood was also a success at the ceremony, winning the award for Best New Drama.

The BBC News Online report on the awards features a comment from Tennant on his forthcoming stage role as Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company next year, which he describes himself as being "very excited and very scared" about. The report further states that on the subject of the 2010 series of Doctor Who, he commented that he did not know if he would be starring in it as "it's in 2010".

The results of the 2007 Hugo Awards have been announced at Nippon 2007, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, in Yokohama, Japan. The Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form went toThe Girl in the Fireplace by Steven Moffat.

This is Moffat's second Hugo win, following from last year's win for The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. Other Doctor Who nominees in the category this year included Army of Ghosts/Doomsday by Russell T Davies and School Reunion by Toby Whithouse.